Welcome!

Thank you for being here. This page was created to help adults who work with and care for youth know where to turn for support when a young person's sexuality is being exploited and they need help. This is an issue that affects far more youth than most of us realize, and we thank you for taking the time to become more educated about it and the resources available to help.

Please take a moment to learn more through the 3 Steps below, which should take about 10 minutes of your time.

If you find these resources helpful, we invite you to share this page with others in your community. You can use the message below:

"The Embodied Leadership Project provides trauma-responsive care and education to help adults who work with and support youth increase their awareness of trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children. This is an issue that affects more youth than many of us realize, especially those experiencing trauma, housing instability, or isolation. Our goal is to ensure that adults are educated and able to connect young people with resources when support is needed.

I invite you to explore this page, watch the 8-minute educational video, and become familiar with the resource and support network: EmbodiedLeadershipProject.org/CSEC

Please feel free to share this message and link with others who work with, care for, or support young people."

A)

RESOURCE & SUPPORT NETWORK

ANTI-TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN MASSACHUSETS

B)

Understand more about trafficking/CSEC from My Life My Choice's one-page graphics:

https://www.mylifemychoice.org/resources-webinars

**If you have additional resources you would like us to know about, 

please submit them through: This google form

CSEC/Trafficking Prevention Resources in Springfield:

RFK Legacy Mentoring Program: (mentoring for CSEC involved youth and emerging adults in Springfield) https://www.rfkcommunity.org/our-services/legacy-mentoring

Baystate Family Advocacy Center One Mission Program: (support for CSEC involved youth and emerging adults in Springfield) https://www.baystatehealth.org/medical-services/pediatrics/pediatric-specialties/childhood-trauma-services-and-programs     413-794-3993.

YWCA of Western MA: https://www.ywworks.org

The Rest School curriculum is designed to meet, uplift and support vulnerable youth by offering connection, consistency and an outlet for expression and mentorship. We have piloted it for several years in the public school setting and are working toward utilizing it for play groups and support groups in spaces of youth intervention.  We are thankful for a recent grant from the DA Community Forfeiture Support Fund to purchase more handpans (the instrument in the photos below) for training youth to facilitate the curriculum! 

We are so happy to invite you to participate in our community-funded initiative to prevent CSEC & provide excellent advocacy for survivors of trauma. 

This fund allows us to provide immediate uninterrupted support to youth and those who care for them and supports expansion of our work to serve more youth and emerging adults. 

This fund is simple and allows individuals, orgs and companies who are ready to give a donation of any size today via a tax deductible donation (via our 510c3 Fiscal Sponsor) that can be completed in a matter of minutes. 

Donate by clicking this link: https://www.omprakash.org/global/the-embodied-leadership-project/donate

Your gift will go to our Continuity of Care Fund: 

Often, gaps in care come from overburdened systems, the time it takes to coordinate and expand systems, delays in processes, waitlists for support and silos of information. This community created funds allow us to given support as we are needed, exactly when we are needed. 

We will share annual reports on the impact we were able to make with your support.

Donate by clicking this link: https://www.omprakash.org/global/the-embodied-leadership-project/donate

Your gifts help us sustain the care we currently offer:

• Youth engagement and advocacy through our current programming with elementary age youth and teens/emerging adults 

• Organizing volunteers to help expand our programming. 

• Creating media that shares our curriculum with more vulnerable youth and those who care for them/intervene in their circumstance. 

• Using the handpan to create pathways and connections between youth-focused providers to help prevent CSEC.  

Please email EmbodiedLeadershipProject@gmail.com to schedule!

Please reach out if you are intereted in collaborating on grants that fund any of the following: 

embodiedleadershipproject@gmail.com

#1 Vision of Program Outline: 

Key words: Workforce Development/Trafficking Prevention/Empowering Employment Pipeline/Creative Mentoring

Rest School Teacher Training

Offering free training and paid facilitation to creative emerging adults to:

learn our SEL curriculum and EAL practices at the farm

help produce educational content and community building events

train others to learn about and implement our Rest School curriculum

This training also includes free 1:1 mentoring sessions with local artists/mentors